Nearly 27,000 people cast CBRM election votes online

SYDNEY — A total of 26,949 voters cast their ballots online in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality elections, as e-voting polls came to a close Tuesday night.

Of the 82,223 eligible voters in the municipality, 32.8 per cent used e-voting.

The most e-votes and highest percentage were cast in District 4, which includes Sydney River, Westmount, Point Edward, Edwardsville, North West Arm and parts of Coxheath and Prime Brook. A total of 2,724 online votes were cast in that district, which represented 38.4 per cent of voters.

The lowest total of e-votes cast was in District 3, with 1,607. District 3 encompasses communities southwest of North Sydney on the peninsula bounded by St. Andrews Channel and East Bay on the Bras d’Or Lake and the southern boundaries of the communities on the Point Edward peninsula.

The lowest percentage was in District 11 (New Waterford, Scotchtown, River Ryan, Lingan and New Victoria) with 26.6 per cent. Lowell Cormier will win the seat by acclamation in that district.

In Victoria County, 37 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots online. The highest percentage came in District 6, where 61 per cent used e-voting. District 6 runs from the base of Cape Smokey to include the MacKrous subdivision and all roads in between.

Traditional paper ballot voting across the province is Saturday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Going to vote the old fashioned way because I don't know if you can spoil your ballot with the online tool....first time ever I've had to vote for 'none of the above'.
You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it. God help us.